Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Article	Citations
Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate: The derailment of strategic manoeuvring	13
Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes	11
Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis ApproachDiscourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach	10
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry	9
Quality assessment of translated isiXhosa public texts	8
Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death	7
An analysis of linguistic errors in translations of complainants’ sworn statements	5
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English	5
A sociolinguistic study of cluster simplification in Nigerian English	5
An analysis of homonymy and polysemy in Xitsonga	4
Metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba discursive interactions	4
Vocalic and intervocalic intervals in the speech of educated Idoma speakers of English	4
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press	4
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words	4
The link between English language proficiency and academic performance among NC(V) first-year engineering students at a South African TVET college	3
Introduction to Corpus LinguisticsIntroduction to Corpus Linguistics, Sandrine Zufferey, ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc (2020). pp. 258+X, ISBN: 978-1-78630-417-9	3
English lingua franca as a language of learning and teaching in northern Namibia: A report on Oshiwambo teachers' experiences	3
Native English and non-native authors’ utilisation of lexical bundles: A corpus-based study of scholarly public health papers	3
An analysis of the impact of section 4(2)(b) of the South African Use of Official Languages Act of 2012 (on previously marginalised indigenous official languages)	3
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics	3
Patterns of lexical innovation in Nigerian English	3
False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga	3
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices	3
SisiXhosa osikhathalele ngantoni na esi ude usindwe ziincwadi ezingaka? Why do you care about isiXhosa so much that you are overwhelmed by so many books?	3
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya	3

Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective	2
Examining the impact of digital media technology in teaching Igbo to heritage learners	2
Construction Grammar: The Structure of English	2
Linguistic faces of multilingualism: Billboards and notices in Sesotho sa Leboa	2
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria	2
Cross-cultural conceptualisations of schizophrenia in Cameroonian languages	2
The production of English binomials by Botswana learners of English	2
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective	2
Exploring translanguaging practices in synchronous and asynchronous online-instructed first-year academic literacy interventions	2
Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines	2
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices	2
The isiZulu translation of biblical weights and measures	2
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters	2
A diachronic study of self-sourced reporting clauses in mechanical engineering and education	2
A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam	1
Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective	1
Grammaticality judgements of tense by young adult speakers of Shona	1
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria	1
Developing an academic word list for mathematics research articles: A corpus-based approach	1
Adoption of mixed method designs in applied linguistics research	1
Kimbu speakers’ attitudes toward language endangerment	1
Functional analysis of stance nouns in English Language Teaching research articles	1
Naming and describing in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Fate of Vultures and Other Poems	1
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners	1
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative	1
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective	1
Pragmatic functions of deixis in Nigerian newspaper editorials	1
Syntax in the Treetops	1
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction	1
Exploring intrasectional variations of lexical bundles in medical research articles	1
Referring Expressions, Pragmatics and Style: Reference and Beyond	1
A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles	1
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation	1
Effects of bilingualism on the cognitive development of selected Nigerian University undergraduates	1
A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish	1
The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa	1
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis	1
An encounter with some translators: Challenges they faced when translating Long Walk to Freedom	1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction	1
Multilingualism in Southern Africa: Issues and Perspectives	1
Mapping the knowledge structure of pragmatics (1977–2022): A bibliometric analysis	1
Investigating vocabulary knowledge among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners	1
Toxicity in gendered Sepedi proverbs: A textual analysis	1
A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests	1
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech	1
Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day	0
Exploring the readability of Sesotho Grade 12 examination texts using English readability metrics	0
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi	0
Artist’s cognitive level and the style and form trails in graffiti: an analysis of graffiti from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools	0
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university	0

Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions	0
The connotative meaning of the Xhosa word umlungu before and during the democratic era	0
Shujaa Okonkwo analysis from the perspective of Eco-Translatology	0
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers	0
Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Lexis	0
L1 influence on stress placement by English language teachers in Anambra State (Nigeria)	0
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (5th edn)	0
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics)Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics),	0
Internationalising Learning in Higher Education: The Challenges of English as a Medium of Instruction	0
Discursive strategies of framing in Nigerian and South African headlines on xenophobic violence	0
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo	0
Propaganda as expressed through nouns	0
Exploring disciplinary authors’ conflict negotiation in published research article discussions	0
Assessing the effect of duration of exposure to academic writing on university students in the use of conjunctive cohesive devices in academic writing: A case study at Mkwawa University College of Edu	0
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence	0
Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of reading: Can they perpetuate inequalities in reading?	0
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause	0
Language planning and sociocultural change: Afaan Oromoo from minoritisation to revitalisation	0
Timing and effectiveness of media frames reporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	0
Discursive construction of ethnicity in the herdsmen and farmers discourse	0
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria	0
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace	0
Afrikaans first language wh -question acquisition in low socio-economic status Grade 1 learners	0
Neither Sepedi nor Northern Sotho/Sesotho sa Leboa is onomastically correct: a colonial imposition	0
A sociolinguistic analysis of gratitude expressions in Tshivenḓa	0
Reflections on vowel lowering and raising in Malawian CiTonga (N.15)	0
Conventionalised impoliteness in Nigerians’ reactions to the Buhari-led government’s Federal Character Principle	0
Linguistic misconceptions of tautology in the English second language context among student educators	0
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts	0
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar	0
The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of pragmatics pedagogy in EFL/L2: meta-analysis review	0
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software	0
Die verband tussen kontekstuele en buitetekstuele faktore en verbruikers se omgang met gewone taal	0
Cultural and social construction of illness: The case of Basotho patients’ folk interpretations of their illness experiences	0
Family language policy in post-genocide Matabeleland: The case of a Ndebele family	0
Assessing EFL learners’ written performance: The case of task repetition	0
‘Innie Malmesbuġy waa ôs bly’: Taalburgerskap, Arabies-Afrikaans, en die bry-r in Ashwin Arendse se Swatland	0
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia	0
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences	0
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools	0
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication	0
Typos in Addis Ababa: Analysis of typographical errors on posters and banners	0
Police interviews in a non-native context: Misconstructions and possible solutions	0
Expanding subtitles: An exploration into scaffolding and deepening educational content through subtitling	0
Functional stylistic studies to pedagogic discourse: a systematic review of literature	0
Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities	0
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy	0
Smuggling in Syntax	0
Premodifiers and a scarcity-productivity hypothesis in Yorùbá: Does the scarcity of adjectives influence productivity of the premodification slot?	0
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing: An empirical investigation at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa	0
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances	0
Teaching and Testing Second Language Pragmatics and Interaction: A Practical Guide	0
Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts	0
The need to incorporate pragmatics instruction in Ethiopia: A qualitative review	0
Country stereotypes, perceptions and language attitudes: A moderated mediation analysis	0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in Introductions in medical research articles	0
Sesotho control verbs with the reflexive prefix: A morpho-syntactic analysis	0
Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert	0
Teaching EFL reading in Senegal: Current practices and recommendations	0
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English	0
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension	0
The influence of British and American Englishes on Lesotho English	0
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach	0
Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories	0
Isocolon in EDM Sibiya’s novels: A stylo-syntactic evaluation	0
IsiXhosa as a preservative instrument of culture: A consideration of ethnolinguistics	0
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of language and race in South Africa	0
Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades	0
Food as Greekness: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Rand Daily Mail , 1960–1985	0
IRIS: Empowering language researchers with access to quality materials and instruments	0
Diachronic change in lexical bundles in research article abstracts of applied linguistics	0
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French	0
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language	0
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration	0
The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation	0
Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives	0
Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria	0
CLIL research over the past three decades: A bibliometric analysis	0
Knowledge mapping of global research on natural language processing, 1958–2023	0
The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety (Varieties of English Around the World, G65) The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives	0

‘You call your teacher zombi ?’: Nicknaming of Tanzanian secondary school teachers	0
Translation and translators in the eyes of literary reviewers: A content analysis of book reviews of literary works translated into English	0
A move structure analysis of cover letters produced by South African students	0
Altyd ’n snaakse woordjie tussen-in : Nama click consonants in post-shift Namaqualand Afrikaans	0
Source use in research articles in second language writing: A state-of-the-art review	0
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms	0
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese	0
Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis	0
Structures and functions of lexical bundles in FinTech discourse	0
Multidimensional interaction of L2 writing fluency and cohesion: A complexity theory perspective	0
Language attitudes research: a classification of methodological issues	0
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English	0
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach	0
Single pract, multiple pragmemes: Constructing the dialectic of individual social contexts in a sample request–response adjacency	0
Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency	0
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages	0
Vocabulary size and comprehension of academic texts by Tanzanian university students: An exploratory study	0
Mathata a bakwang ke ho se ngole puo ya Sesotho ka nepo marangrang a Setjhaba	0
The semantics of Dagbani cut and break verbs	0
Imiba edinga ukuthathelwa ingqalelo kuguqulelo loncwadi lwabantwana	0
Correction	0
Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond	0
Translanguaging in the classroom: a strategy for English First Additional Language learning	0
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?	0
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho	0
Co-constructing identities and ideological positions in conversational storytelling among friends	0
What makes poetic language different? An experiment in genre recognition using word co-occurrence networks in Afrikaans	0
South African court interpreters’ perceptions of the phenomenon of interpreting	0
Translanguaging spaces as marketing strategies in the linguistic landscapes of Zambia	0
The exploration of compensation in English literal translation of Sesotho proverbs	0
An optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of English tenses: The case of Moroccan EFL learners	0
Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens	0
Are research articles becoming more syntactically complex? Corpus-based evidence from research articles in applied linguistics and biology (1965–2015)	0
Phrase frames in rhetorical moves of economic research article discussions	0
Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony	0
Changing phases of linguistic ecology in Tanzania: The vitality of ethnic languages	0
V2elision in root-suffix hiatus contexts in Malawian CiTonga (Bantu N.15)	0
English L2 vocabulary learning and teaching: concepts, principles, and pedagogy	0
A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y	0
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach	0
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table	0
Socio-pragmatics of language use in selected Pentecostal churches	0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in medical research articles’ Methods section	0
The affects of elitism in three-tiered semioscapes: Mountain View’s ‘secret of happiness’	0
Yahooism to ritualism: Ideological motivations for cyber fraud in selected Yoruba films	0
Attitudes of University of Botswana humanities students to mother tongue education	0
A cross-cultural, cross-contextual study of interactional metadiscourse in academic research articles: An interpersonal approach	0
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors	0
Correction	0
A colonial depiction of human-nature relationships in Johann Krönlein’s Wortschatz der Khoikhoin	0
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency	0
Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom	0
Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research	0
Using bundle analysis to uncover formulaic language patterns in seminar discussions	0
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)	0
Tlhaloso ya Setso ya Botsho, Bosweu, le Boputswa Sesothong	0
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage	0
The language enigma: Two decades of quality assuring language assessment in South Africa	0
Body-part terms in the grammar of Igbo	0
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa	0
Unintentional insincerity in witnesses’ discourse strategies in the Malawian criminal justice system	0
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang	0
New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges	0
The teaching and learning of isiXhosa for communicative purposes in teacher education for the Foundation Phase	0
Call a spade a spade, Mr. Translator!	0
Register competence in academic writing of student teachers specialising in English didactics at the University of Venda	0
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice	0
English relative clauses and the production difficulty facing native speakers of Kiswahili	0